No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.